Rickshaw coolie : a people's history of Singapore, 1880-1940
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Rickshaw coolie : a people's history of Singapore, 1880-1940
（Singapore : studies in society & history）
Singapore University Press, c2003
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"The first edition was published by Oxford University Press, 1986"--T.p. verso
Maps (Singapore municipality 1917) on the beginning and end of the book
Bibliography: p. [376]-382
Includes index
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Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to serve its rapidly growing economy. This book chronicles the vast movement of coolies between China and the Nanyang, and their efforts to survive in colonial Singapore.
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